Life Quote by John Connolly

“Quoting Shakespeare doesn't make you an intellectual. It just makes you a fan of Shakespeare.”

— Kevin N. Fair

“Why do people always quote hamlet when they want to seem clever?”

— Alan Bradley

“The romantic is always intelligent, and I only meant to observe that although we have had foolish romantics, they don't count.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right.

— Tom Sturridge

Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with…

— Joseph Epstein

“Shakespeare,” he thought as he scribbled away. “Foolish fancy. This is life as it is lived.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“There are times, aren't there, when Shakespeare is a little dull.”

— Graham Greene

“About anyone so great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we can never be right; and if we can never be right, it is…

— T.S. Eliot

“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today?”

— Virginia Woolf

“We now doubt Aristotle, understand Shakespeare only with footnotes.”

— Ada Palmer

A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I recommend you…

— Joseph Epstein

“Think of something clever, witty or profound, keep it short and people may quote you.”

— Bobby Darnell